Rhinophrynidae

Rhinophrynidae

Rhinophrynidae

Family of amphibians

The Rhinophrynidae are a family of frogs containing one extant genus, the monotypic Rhinophrynus,[1][2][3][4] and a number of fossil genera.[3][5] The family is sometimes known as the Mexican burrowing toads[1] or simply burrowing toads.[2]

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Burrowing Toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis), Municipality of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico (8 October 2007).

Rhinophrynus occurs in the Central America north from Costa Rica to Mexico and Texas.[1] Fossil finds of Rhinophrynidae come from Mexico, the United States, and Canada.[5] Rhinophrynus is a burrowing ant and termite eater.[2][4]

Systematics

The Rhinophrynidae are the sister taxon of the Pipidae.[1] The clade formed by these two genera is sometimes referred to as Xenoanura[4] or superfamily Pipoidea.[6]

Genera

Extant genera:[1][2][3]

Fossil genera:[3][5]

The affinity of Eorhinophrynus is uncertain.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Rhinophrynidae Günther, 1859". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
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    "Rhinophrynidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
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    Blackburn, D.C.; Wake, D.B. (2011). "Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 39–55. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.8.
  4. [4]
    Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. p. 476.
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    "Family Rhinophrynidae (burrowing toad)". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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    Ford, Linda S.; Cannatella, David C. [in French] (1993). "The major clades of frogs". Herpetological Monographs. 7: 94–117. doi:10.2307/1466954. JSTOR 1466954.
  7. [7]
    Blackburn, David C.; Roberts, Lauren; Vallejo-Pareja, María C.; Stanley, Edward L. (2019-12-05). "First Record of the Anuran Family Rhinophrynidae from the Oligocene of Eastern North America". Journal of Herpetology. 53 (4): 316. doi:10.1670/19-044. ISSN 0022-1511.
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